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the business or industry of slaughtering cattle and other meat animals and processing the carcasses for sale, sometimes including the packaging of processed meat products

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Usage examples (31)
  • 'I have a meat-packing plant near Cidiz,' the girl's father argued.
  • A meat-packing room, he realized, once he saw the cutting equipment.
  • REAGAN: You talk about the meat-packing plants in Iowa, all of that.
  • M. O'BRIEN: You're now headed to the meat-packing factory, M.. Winkle.
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